importing a package

[flupke]

Damjan wrote:
>>I developed a package with a structure like this
>>src/
>>    tesfile.py
>>    dir1/
>>        __init__.py
>>        file1.py
>>    dir2/
>>        __init__.py
>>        file2.py
> 
> 
> Importing dir2/file2 from dir1/file1.py works here, because when yuo started
> the testfile script the src/ directory was added to the sys.path list.
> 
> If you relocate dir1/ and dir2/ in a "package" directory here it will not
> work.
> 
> 

Indeed, when i do this, then it works
import sys
sys.path.append('package')

However, why is it that package isn't added automatically to the pad?

Regards,
Benedict